Mansfield, PA
 

You know what's cool about going to school in a cow town?

NRA's 21st International Youth Hunter Education Challenge (YHEC) will be held July 24-28 in Mansfield, PA. Nearly 400 youngsters are expected to participate, with several hundred more parents, coaches and spectators on hand as well.

I met some of the organizers this morning. The kids will be doing target shooting with rifles and bows. They'll be orienteering and identifying game. There will also be hunter saftey training and some fishing. Let's see them do that at NYU. :)

I used to drive through there all the time on my way to Toronto. Ted Nugent organizes something like this up near Detroit that I may send the munchkins to at some point.

New York University definitely needs more 'saftey' training .

Are you on about my smelling?:)

Meanwhile , please congratulate Mme Assia Djebar of NYU for acquiring her much-coveted place in the Académie Française .

This lady knows a great deal about how people hunt, orienteer, and identify game .

Try to hunt this lady , Griff .

treed her
Book Description
In Algerian White, Assia Djebar gives a chilling firsthand account of religious extremism and intellectual persecution in her native Algeria. She recounts the lives of three of her friends — a psychiatrist, a sociologist, and a playwright — who were killed in the aftermath of the 1956 struggle for independence. But Djebar will not allow her friends to be silenced. Her powerful memoir grows from conversations remembered and imagined with these fallen comrades and reflects on the horrors of war and exile. This is a chilling first-hand account of the religious extremism and intellectual persecution that plagues the author’s homeland. "A hymn to friendship and the enduring power of language, ... also a requiem for a nation’s unfinished literature." — The New York Times

Strong stuff, I may pick this up for myself and pass it on to the daughters, when they're ready for it.

Millions of smiles to you , and I hope your youth challenge goes well . I shall be tracking you , Griff .

I just realized it sounded like my kids were in it. They aren't, I "ran into" some organizers at breakfast this morning. I have one kid interested in archery and one interested in rifles, however, so it isn't beyond the realm of possibility. PA kids always seem to do well in these things because of the large rural population.

I love the idea of that kind of event, but we need more of them down here. In the Northern Tier, that's called "preaching to the choir."

In the Pacific Northwest, we call it "Boy Scout Camp".

Mansfield? Hey, tip a cow over there for me....or fire a shot into the air....something hillbillean-like.

I get homesick sometimes. :D

How about, "solidifying your base?"

I almost tipped one with my pickup commuting over there one evening.

Ya missed it with the truck but got it with the 40, right? :D